Nona is a 23-year-old journalist and cultural critic. She is a born-and-bred New Yorker who is alternately enraptured by and furious at her beloved city. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2006, with a degree in American Studies and a concentration in Film. She wrote her undergraduate thesis on 1970s pornographic movies and their influence on—and reflection of—the sexual revolution and feminism. Nona is the child of feminist cultural and political writer Ellen Willis and sociology scholar and veteran political activist Stanley Aronowitz, both of whom have greatly influenced her writing and thought.
Nona’s features, essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in The Village Voice, The Nation, The New York Observer, Salon.com, Popmatters.com, Tango Magazine, and The Brooklyn Rail. She has written pieces on issues such as tipping and tourism in New York, the future of male birth control, and the feminist possibilities of the rampant “hookup” culture among teenagers. She has reported on cultural and social phenomena like transgender street kids, an international hip hop festival, and The Vagina Monologues. She has held internships and fellowships at The Village Voice, Salon.com, Legal Momentum(formerly the NOW Legal Defense Fund), and Tango Magazine, and recently worked as a consultant for the NYC Department of Education.
Nona is currently working on her first book--a road trip chronicling young women's relationship to feminism--with her beautiful and talented photographer friend, Emma Bernstein.
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